Health care providers in Alberta will face challenges in offering gender-affirming care, if the provincial government there proceeds with restrictions as announced.
Pride groups and some health-care providers are harshly criticizing the Alberta government’s latest attempt to get feedback on its proposed gender identity policies — a private invite that requires participants to sign a non-disclosure agreement.The Alberta government invited 40 organizations and individuals to participate in virtual focus group sessions about its proposed gender identity policies.
The email is signed by a senior policy adviser for Alberta Health. It notes that if invitees want to participate, they must sign a non-disclosure agreement . "I think they just wanted us to be in the room. My sense is that they wanted to be able to say that they engaged with key stakeholders, but they weren't really actually sincere in doing that," he said.
"Should women be engaged in conversations that involve women? Should people of colour be engaged in conversations that involve them?" he said. "The fact that such a small portion of this community has been involved in this decision-making progress is just a sign that is not engaging in any degree of sincerity in this conversation."Smith has said her government will introduce legislation this fall to support the policies affecting trans and non-binary youth and adults.
"As currently the only organization that has regular weekly programming with youth, 80 per cent of which identify as transgender ... we definitely should be included in that," said Esjay Lafayette, executive director of the Pride Centre of Edmonton."The ones who will be most impacted are those that are not from affirming, safe spaces, and that is a lifelong sentence of pain and suffering," he said.
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